{"id":13367,"date":"2014-09-26T08:55:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T08:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mundusmaris.org\/non-classifiee\/environmentally-conscious-consumer-behaviour-in-food-what-can-i-do\/"},"modified":"2024-12-03T21:57:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T21:57:42","slug":"environmentally-conscious-consumer-behaviour-in-food-what-can-i-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mundusmaris.org\/fr\/locean-nous-nourrit\/environmentally-conscious-consumer-behaviour-in-food-what-can-i-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmentally conscious consumer behaviour in food – what can I do?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fireplace evening at the German St. Paul Parish in Brussels is a popular opportunity to discuss in a relaxed atmosphere once a month a topic of major importance for society.<\/p>\n

The organisers had invited Cornelia E Nauen of\u00a0Mundus maris<\/em>\u00a0to speak on 24 September 2014 about how each individual can contribute towards restraining the tremendous waste of food and also towards adapting consumer behaviour to sustainability principles. The announcement already outlined the challenge:<\/p>\n

In Europe, about 40% of all food on offer does not reach the table to be eaten, but will rather be destroyed, not least because of the indication of a recommended consumption date, which is often misunderstood as an expiration date. In addition, the widespread use of disposable plastic bags comes to haunt us, among other things, in the form of marine pollution problems by increasing threats to the populations of many marine organisms and contamination of the food from the sea through small plastic particles. Furthermore, not everything can be produced locally, but what does this mean for the availability of food and the living and working conditions in the regions of origin?<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Dr Heine, a retired official of the agricultural department of the European Commission, opened the evening.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

As with all important questions, there are no simple and always unequivocal answers. But what experiences exist already and which appear particularly promising? We wanted to pursue and develop the question, where environmentally conscious consumer behaviour is in relation to food, and how each individual can implement it in everyday life.<\/p>\n

To put it straight to the point, today, enough food is produced to feed up to 10 billion people worldwide. The estimated world population is currently slightly more than 7 billion. So there is currently no absolute production deficit. The expected increase in population by at least another two billion people could be fed therefore entirely.<\/p>\n

However, the global totals say nothing about the actual distribution and the sustainability of the economy. So roughly, just short of one billion people are malnourished, while slightly more than a billion people are struggling with obesity.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Cornelia Nauen E gave the lecture, but interrupted again and again to respond to questions and comments from the participants<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

The\u00a0lecture explored the problems from three aspects that influence our attitudes and consumption of food:<\/p>\n